- NIGHT EXTRA—President Recognizes Czecho-Slovaks ■ cs 4//iesNICIIT EXTRA , HARRISBURG ifSliii TELEGRAPH M\ ®l)c otarln&epcn&ent ' No. 195 12 PAGES Da K? e . p t t? d p a o y B. Ktt'HaSS aM HARRISBURG. PA.. TUESDAY EVENINC, SEPTEMBER 3, 1918. oni nhwhi'apkk tinXUUJSBuW* s 1 two*"Cengs' s NIGHT EXTRA LXXXVII— GREAT DRIVE LENS AND British Drive Through Hun Positions Distance of 4 Miles GERMAN ARMIES REELING UNDER TERRIBLE BLOWS OVER 50 MILES Disaster Faces Huns Who Are Fleeing in Full Haste in Hope of Saving Something of Crushed and Shattered Forces STRONGEST DEFENSIVE LINES ARE CRUMBLING Fall of Douai and Cambrai Within Short Period Now robablc; Magnitude of Vic tory Too Great For De scription By Associated Press On a front of virtually fifty miJes from just below Ypres to a point near Peronne on ( the Somme, the German armies are in retreat. This retrograde: movement is not a voluntary onel 011 the part of the enemy, but' has been forced by the series of; u 11 remitting sledgehammer blows inflicted by Marshal Foch in the past six or seven weeks. It now hus been accelerated by the notable victory won by Field Mar shal Haig yesterday in breaking through the strong defensive lines protecting the railway centers of Douai and Cambrai, and threaten ing to outflank even.the main Hin denburg line south to St. Quentin. 10,000 Prisoners Taken Already the taking of ten thousand prisoers by the British in their ad vance is reported and the German casualties in killed and wounded are declared to have been notably heavy, as their thickly massed forces felt the force of the British blow. So pronounced and so speedily is the German retirement movement that it seems as though the enemy, if he has not" met with a disaster, is perilously on the verge of one- Try to Escape In what appears like an effort \o escape in time, the scope of the Ger man retirement, which had been pro ceeding somewhat leisurely both north and south of the Somme, his been markedly accentuated north of that river. In this movement the important French coal mining city of Lens, at the gates of which the British pound ed vainly virtually all last year, has been evacuated, the British moving in. To the north, in Flanders, the re treat is continuing, and the British [Continued on Page 2.] Explosion at Odessa Kills Austro-German Officers and Troops Amsterdam, Sept. 3. —A Kiev dis patch received here reports that a disastrous explosion occurred in Odessa last Saturday. The dispatch says a number of Austro-German of ficers and men were killed and that a portion of one of (he suburbs of Odessa was destroyed. Another Member of the Old Eighth Wounded Another casualty among former Eighth Regiment boys was reported to-day when the War Department telegraphed that John Howard Brownawell, son of Milton lirowna well. 34 3 Brook street, hud been s. - verely wounded while in action on August 8. A former Telegraph em ploye he enlisted about a year ago with Company I, of the Eighth Regi ment of the old Pennsylvania Na tional Guard at the age of 17 years. TODAY COUNT UR WHAT YOU SAVED ON GASOLINE SUN DAY itSTPUT IT INTO THRIFT STAMPS THE WEATHER For Ilarrlsburß and vicinity, Showers this nftrrnoon and to niuliti Wednesday cooler and probably fnlr. FOE IS UNA BLE TO HOLD LINES UNDER ASSAULT By Associated Br ess London, Sept. 3.—The British have captured' the city of Lens. The town of Queant also hasj been taken. Lens was evacuated by the Ger mans, the British moving in. In their push beyond the Drocourt-Oueant line the British have advanced to a point just to the west of Buissy, two and one-half miles northeast of Queant, and occupied Pronville, a mile and a half southeast of Queant. 10,000 Prisoners Taken More than 10,000 prisoners were taken by the British yester day. Additional prisoners were taken this morning. Ihe British also hold Doignies, Velu, and Bertincourt and Rocquigny, representing an advahcc to a maximum dept of four miles on a twenty mile front effected this morning. In Flanders, [Continued on Page 2.] Yankees Bombing Hun Positions American Headquarters in France, L-wrA great light has been in progress all day north and northeast of Soissons. The Germans are defending the Pont Rouge plateau, northeast of Soissons, and the Laon railway with great vigor, as well as the line on the right along the north bank of the Aisne. Ihe Americans are bombarding the German positions from the south and west. The lines of the enemy for hours have been a seething inferno of smoke and dust. The village he has been holding are burning like vast torches. Smoke from the conflagrations is boiling up from the valley and over the hills. I he Germans at one o'c'ock drenched the American positions on the Juvigny plateau witn gas .but in retaliation an American barrage silenced bis guns for the moment. § RED CROSS TURNS OUT AN IMMENSE AMOUNT OF WORK Thousands ol' Articles Made by Loyal Harrisburg Women For Men in U. S. Service During the month of August 28,- 430 articles were produced by work ers at the Harrisburg Chapter of the American Red Cross. This total is contained in the monthly report of the Woman's Bureau of the local chapter made public this morning by Mrs. G. H. Orth, executive secre tary. Included in this is the total of the workrooms under the direction of Mrs. Mercer B. Tate. Splendid [Cuntliiucd on Page 10.] CITY COUNCIL TO CONFER ON BETTER HOUSING Measure Drawn by Dr. Rauli ick After Many Confer ences With Experts Council will confer to-morrow evening on the housing ordinance which has been prepared after care ful study by Dr. J. M. J. Raunick, city health officer, and other city and state officials interested in the hous ing situation. An effort was made to introduce the measure at. to-day's council meeting but when some of the members objected. Commissioner S. F. Hassler suggested a conference so that the ordinance could be pre pared in proper form for first read ing. Commissioner, E. Z. Gross made a request at the session to-day for per mission to purchase coal for the var ious tire companies in the open mar ket as no bids were received when they were asked. Council decided to wuit until he submitted an estimate of the amount needed and the deal ers from whom it would be pur chased. Commissioner Gross also an nounced the motorized chemical wagon for the Paxton Eire Company will be delivered soon and will be painted and ready for service shortly alter it reaches the city. COSTS GERMANS 10,000 PRISONERS CZECHO-SLOVAKS RECOGNIZED AS ALLIES OF U. S. Masaryk, Commander in Chief of Armies, Advised by Lan sing of President's Action By Associated Press Washington, Sept. 3.—The United States has recognized the Czecho slovak peoples as a cobelllgerent na tion in the war against Germany and ' Austria-Hungary. Professor T. G. Masaryk, president of the Czeeho-Slovak national coun cil and commander-in-chief of- the Czeeho-Slovak armies lighting in Russia. France and Italy, met Sec retary Lansing at the State Depart ment at noon to-day and was form ally notilled of President Wilson's ac tion. ECONOMY URGED . BY DR. DOWNES ASSCHOOLSOPEN Crowded Conditions in Vir tually Every Ruilding; 800 Enter Central and Tech Conservation of fuel, paper and supplies and a continuance of the war work in schools during the year which just opened to-day are meas ures urged upon teachers as their part in winning the fight against au tocracy in a letter sent to them to day by Dr. F. 15. Downes, city school superintendent. "There will he no dlminition of war work in the schools during the coming year," Dr. Downes asserts. "In fact, it probably will be intensi fied; and I am sure that we shall take pleasure in performing any duty [Continued on Page 10.] U-noAT SINKS FRENCH SIIII* By Associated I'rcss Paris, Sept. 3.—The French steam ship Pampa was sunk by a torpedo on the night of August 26 while on a voyage from Btzerta to Saloniki. Four Serbian soldiers out of the .153 persons on beard ure missing. POLITICS SEEN BACK OF WILSON AND COL HOUSE BY SEN. SHERMAN President Is Accused of Build ing Up Democratic Machine Under Cover of Necessities of War-Time Legislation ADVISORS CRITICISED FOR MANY FAILURES By Associated Tress Washington, Sept. 3.—ln a lengthy prepared uddress on what he tailed "unofflciul and personal govern ment," Senator Sherman, of Illinois, Republican, made a scathing attack in the Senate to-day on President Wilson and his administration and particularly Colonel E. M. House, the President's personal friend and ad viser. With ironical references to the President's recent statement that pol itics is adjourned, the Senator assert ed that, having elected the President "almost singlehanded," Colonel House and a coterie of Texas politicians "are in the saddle and they are du 'ftig* politics in the same old way. Ploying to Politicians Under pretense of war powers, he said, the administration is placing control of the country in the hands of a few politicians and labor lead ers, to be used relentlessly for the i election of party candidates now and a president in 1920. "1 denounce," he said, "a political ! autocracy covertly engaged when the nation is in the stress of war in un dermining institutional civil liberty." Colonel House was characterized by Senator Sherman as "this alleged, unelected, unofficial assistant presi dent." The Senator gave an anal ysis of a novel said to have been written by Colonel House, which he described as an autobiography tell ing u tale of politics, civil war and rContinued on Page 10.] Children Playing With Matches Set Fire to Home While Mother Is at Store Two hundred dollars damage was caused by the tire in the hack bej rcom on tho second floor of the two-story frame dwelling at llti Dock street, occupied by Frank RUSH. Tho fire started when the children, who had been locked in the room whils their mother went to the store to purchase some groceries, began play ing with matches, accordng to Fii-e Chief Kindler. Tho ilro was confined to the sec ond Hoof room, and the bed cloth ing and furniture which was de stroyed constituted most of the loss. Mr. Russ was not at home, hav ing left for work at tho Central Iron and Steel Company, where he is employed. HARRISBURG LIEUT.IS HOME FROM FRONT; HUNS ON RUN, HESA YS Lieutenant James T. Long, formerly of Company D, Eighth Infantry, and lately of Company M. One Hundred and Twelfth Infantry, arrived home last night, from France on instruc tion duty. He was in the thick of the tights from Chateau Thierry to the Vesle river and says that the regiment displayed magnificent cour age and that the Harrisburgers want to go through to the finish. He will go to Camp lJix as an instructor. Lieutenant Long was gassed in the middle of July near the Marne. Lieutenant Joshua W. Swartz, Jr., of this city, came home with him. He was In the same regiment and will also go to Camp Dix. The four National Guard divisions that are in this sector with the Al lied drive took 34,000 prisoners and between 600 and 700 guns, millions of rounds of ammunition. "We have the Germans on the run and are going to keep them going" said he. Tells Thrilling Story How the Americans in the Cha teau Thierry sector ÜBed up thirty German divisions and made possible the great a'lied offensive which is to-day knocking at the doors of the Hindcnburg line if it is not already across the threshold, is told by Idea tenant Long. It is a thrilling tale. The Keystone Division is made up of the One Hundred Ninth, the One Hundred Tenth, the One Hundred Eleventh arid the One Hundred, Twelfth Divisions, the One Hundred Tenth being made up mostly of thol AUGUST WAR COST TOTALS $1,714,000,000 By Associated Press Washington, Sept. 3. —Govern- ment war expenditures In Au gust broke all monthly records by more than $100,000,000, amount ing to $1,714,000,000 on reports up to to-day. Later reports may raise this by $50,000,000. Ordipary war expenses totaled $1,408,000,000, or $200,000,000 more than last month's high rec ord. This did not include out lays of last Saturday yet to be tabulated. Loans to allies were reported as $244,000,000, not in cluding Saturday. * IN BITTER FIGHT BRITISH CAPTURE HUN POSITIONS Drive at Fast ace in Direction of Canal <lu Nord on Sonunc Battlefield HARD FIGHTING IS IN PROGRESS AT NOREUIL Enemy Hurries to Get Behind Remnants of Defensive - . v - Line Near Beugny By Associated Press With the British Army in France. Sept. 3.—ln heavy fighting last night beyond the Drocourt-Queant line !he British are reported to have made further progress on a front of 13,000 yards. The village Etaing, two miles north of Dury, iell late yesterday at about the same t.roe the British further south wove capturing Villers-lez- Cugnicourt. These captures were ef fected after some bitter lighting. The villages of Saudemont and Re court, more than a mile and a half beyond Dury, the capture of which was announced last night, are re ported to have been taken to-duy. nritisli Return Fire The enemy was in force at the last reports, tc the southwest and to the nort of Queant. Fro mthe rirlgeß he was pouring a heavy machine gun Hre at the British, who were return ing the lire r nci ggining ground at the same time. on the Somme buttleiield the Brit ish are driving at u puce generully fast in [he direction of the Canal du Nord, where the Germans have erect ed wire. Their trenches here, how ever, only have been half dug, it is rumored. Little Protection Likely The Germans, it seems to bo ex pectcd, will offer determined resist ance along this line, us they now are doing in front of it and then retire hack of the canal, if necessary. With their lines at the canal in surn an embryo state, however, little protec tion will be afforded the enemy. [Continued on Page 10.] ' M. % ; *• Ikm?" LIEUT. JAMBS T. LONG, JR. old Third and Tenth National Guard Regiments and the One Hundred Twelfth of the old Sixteenth arid Eighth Regiments of the Guard, [Continued on l'agc 10.] BARBED WIRE AND ENEMY TRENCHES FAIL TO HOLD UP AMERICAN DASH Position After Position Cross j ed by Yankees Under Ter rific Fire of Shells and Ma chine Guns From German Lines BEST OF KAISER'S MEN DECISIVELY DEFEATED With the American Army in France. Monday, Sept. 2.—After four days and nights spent in an obser vation post in the region of Juvigny, i Sergeant Ira Croshaw, of Grand Rapids Mich., returned to-day to American division headquarters aft er having witnessed virtually all of I the American daylight action since the attack on the plateau began last Wednesday morning. The hill where the observation post is located commands a view of the country for miles around, the Germans having erected a shell proof tower of concrete and steel rails with a roof six feet thick Andj the sides font feet. In addition to a telephone, Sergeant Croshaw had seven runners. The tower exit faced the German lines and the enemy machine gunners opened Are every' time an individual was sighted, but none of the runners was lost. Crawls Over Dead Body When Sergeant Croshaw reached the tower he found a dead German i at the entrance, but before he could bury the body the shelling started The first day the American runners crawled back * and forth into tnc ' tower entrance over the body of Lnc I dead German, the Americans finally burying it beneath the entrance. I Sergeant Croshaw witnessed the j I Americans cross the veritable sea of ! barbed wire network on Sunday aft | ernoon while the Americans we* - '- ] I eastward bound. He saw his coun trymen fcross trench after trench by bounds until he wondered how In fantrymen stood the strain of shells and machine gun fire pouring upon the plateau. Cut Through Wire Time and again advancing infan trymen were compelled to halt and cut or break down wire entangle ments to get through. Men ahead were supplied with wire cutters to complete the fob started by the ai j tillery. Muny trenches crossed were so wide that ibe advancing soldiers I were compelled to take them on a | running jump or go down on o.;a | s'dc ar.o up the other. Defeat Mower of Hun Army North of Soissons General Man- j gin's troops after three days of furi- ! ous com ha iv. in which positions were taken and retuken several times, have pushed forward on the plateau that overlooks the valley of the Ailctte behind Chemin des Dames and from where the citadel of Laon, one of the stoutest pillars in the German secondary line may plainly be seen. The French and Americans met around Juvigny the elite of the Ger man army, grenadiers of the Prus- I slan guard, picked storming bat talions and hardy mountain Infan trymen. They defeated them de cisively, taking an enormous death roll from their rnks and sending a goodly number of captives to the rear. Use Swift Tunks The Americans co-operated in the attack on Juvigny with the type of i tanks which the French have named i "chars d'assaut," or shock cars. | These engines of war have been ' called "armored tnfntry." They have j all the suppleness of troops afoot and they advance readily into the enemy's positions, dealing death with | gruesome profusion from their quick-firers and cannon. One of j these cars manned by a French lieu- i tenant killed 200 Germans before Juvigny. Very severe fighting has been go-' 1 ing on also north of Noyon, along ! the Meve river and the Canal du | Nord and around Nesle. After fore-. I lng the last fortified centers of re- I sistance around Roye and Chaulnes. ' the French arrived at these points, ! confronting natural obstucles which i the Germans utilized to best advgn- l tage. Tho French succeeded in forcing a crossing of the Ingon between Qulquery and Rouy-le-Petit last evening, slipping through the enemy's advanced positions to the . edge of the plateau extending toward ! Hani and were attacking Hill 77 ut j last accounts. LATE NEWS MARKET CLOSES STRONG New York—Another snirited advance in U. S'. Ste<; 1 and t five point gain in Hide and Leather preferred wore the 11 riking* features of tlie active firial hour. The clcs ;; was strong. Fir. 1 prices on Liberty Bond.. • wtic: 3 l-2s, 101.89; first con. 4s, 94.50; second 4s. 94.4 4 first con 4 l-4s, 94.46; second con. 4 1 -4s, 94.46: thir I-4 ,'95.06. Stimulated by further favorable war ne • , broader buying for both accounts attended to-day's c in sistently strong' stock market, important rails and in dustrials making high records of the year. Sales'appro; mated 500,000 share*. CANADA RAIL MEN GET RAISE Montreal—Wage increases vggr?: ..i'ting $" VW. 1 ' annually will be granted to 30,000 men in railroKl di ; , thr jghout Canada, affecting all the railroad in the dor mion, under an agr.eety.ent, announced li • • Tlr r.ward is the ..ante a* that given to railway rmpb- •• in the United States by Director General McAdoo. REFUGEES GRANTED SAFETY Washington—Safe conduct for passage through Fin land has been granted citizens of allied countries seekirv to leave Russia, the Ge/tnan authorities dictating the P II y of the Finnish government having made no -ob jection to the arrangement,' Special trains will be pro vided for the. refugees, who include some one hundred Americans, to carry them through Finland 'to the nearest Swedish port to embark for their homes. | GIRL'S NECK BROKEN IN AUTO CRASH I Reading.' Pa —An automobile late last night s c6ftid< ' ' relic; <: - O S l -. ever by £. • ncck .be g broken. esdaped injur: LIEUT. J. G. SWAKTZ HOME FROM WAR FRONT - i-mburg Lieutenant J. G. S vsi:,, who in thr battle around Chateau Thierry has just arrived from thr fro: ! and is speeding 'several clays with his father, J. W. 1511 North Second street, on his -way to Camp !- where he will be a:i instructor. He was with the 11-Ah Regiment, Keystone Division. BERLIN TAKES NOTICE OF ATTACK Berlin—French forces, supported by American and Moroccan divisions, after several hours, of artillery prepar ation yesterday, attacked the German positions between the Oise and the Aisne rivers, Ir'tie German war office an nounced to-day. NATION WANTS SURPLUS STEEL •■.hirgtan- M * than 40,000 manufacturers using steel i i their products have been called upon by the War I ' :> i Boa;. • i vi.ikr. complete reports of "' eir eel Kocks, down to the smallest holdings, preparatory to cditl n ■: ruin;, for war use I'll surplus Supphes of steel. TAILOR RESISTS TELEPHONE WQKKMF.N Harrisburg—Louis Begelfer, tailor, of 4'3 North Third with the small tee of his left foot almost severed, was treated at the Keystone Hospital this after v.- v. Asked tc r.-.plain the -accident, Begelfer •end that BeJ] Telephone Company employes were endeavoring to pi. p:de on a narrow pavement at his property at He.rr and Grape streets. He interfered and one of the men, he said, plunged .a digging iron at his foot. S. M. Palm, Superintendent of Methods of the Bell Telephone Com pany said that he knew nothing of the accident. 33 WOODEN VESSELS IN AUGUST Philadelphia—Amesifan shipping was in- eared l thirty-three wooden vessels during .August. BRITISH TAKE HAMBLAIN-LES-PRES London—Carrying their attack to the northeast of # Arras the British to-day.captured the village of Hamblain les-Pres, just to the squth of the Scarpe, in the direction Uiniai. ' MARRIAGE LICENSES John A. Henr, Sbermanndule, nnd % I rule H. YeltM, Hernhey | Snmuel A Utile uml Mnr> K Thompnon. llnrrlnbarKl Hnrrj- R He huek nnd Jnlln It. Willlnni-. I.enlntnnnt rhnrlen A. Stroll. Camp MeArthar. Tcmh, and Helen M. fl'Brlen, llnrrtnlmrKl Runnel! John non, Mteelton, nnd Uladyn C. Ulb'tenn. Hnrrlnhurici Hnrrj E. Smith, HnrrlnburK, nnd Carrie B. Binan. Ken-porti filenn 11. Horn. Mlddle tovt n, nnd Anna M. I'rennlt, Meadvllle. •
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